Commonwealth v. Spallone

Opinion by

Kenworthey, J.,

Appellant was tried and convicted of knowingly ac cep ting money out of the earnings of Janette Rogers, alias Irene Strove, and Chiquita Gomez, women engaged in prostitution. Act of 1939, June 24, P. L. 872 §515, 18 PS §4515. The appeal challenges the sufficiency of the evidence to sustain the conviction, raises several procedural questions and complains of the adequacy of the court’s charge to the jury.

The commonwealth sought to prove its case by showing that the women were prostitutes working in a bawdy house at 521 Pine Street, Easton, and that appellant was the…